Paying for College: Experts Gather in Search of New Models

By Beckie Supiano and Kelly Field

Washington

The Lumina Foundation has made college attainment its primary
focus. One major impediment to its "big
goal" of increasing "the proportion of Americans with
high-quality college degrees, certificates, or other credentials to
60 percent by 2025" is the cost of college.

That’s how Jamie P. Merisotis, the foundation’s president and
chief executive officer, teed up the "Lumina Ideas Summit" on
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